How do I enable gmail desktop notifications? Recommended browser plug-ins?

How do I enable gmail desktop notifications?

Under the “General” tab find the section titled ‘Desktop Notifications’

Click the ‘..enable desktop notifications…’ text

Select one of the three options listed

New Mail Notifications – see alerts for all messages that land in your primary inbox

Important Mail Notifications – only see alerts for mail marked as ‘important’

Mail Notifications Off – don’t show any mail alerts

When you’re done scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the ‘Save Changes‘ button.

Now, whenever Gmail is open in Chrome, you’ll see notifications of new e-mails as per your settings. If using default Chrome notifications (e.g. on Chrome OS) then clicking on a notification will open it up in Gmail, while those you choose to ignore will disappear from the screen after a few seconds.